My girlfriend got the information from this official
gouverment address.

Kadoma Unten Shikenjo
23-16 Ichiban-cho
Kadoma City, Osaka 571-8555
Tel: (06) 6908 9121

She wants to know where you got the different information from and where we 
shoulde call and go to change my Dutch driver licence.

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> Guus Veldhuis <guus@dse.nl> wrote
> in message <39vjqcF63j2ooU1@individual.net>:
>> Hello again, a few weeks ago I asked a question about driving in Japan 
>> with
>> an international driver licence and changing it into a Japanese licence.
>> Yesterday my girlfriend phoned with the examination school and asked if 
>> this
>> was true, like that people from theh Netherlands do need to do a test 
>> when
>> they want to change it and they told her completely different things. If 
>> I
>> want to change my licence (valid until 2011) I have to do a 2 hour 
>> verbale
>> test and a 6 hours driving test and pay some money too. Anybody has
>> experience with this and who is right now? Thanks in advance, Guus
>
> I don't really understand what the examination school means, however I 
> guess
> your girl friend called a private driving school, then they may have such 
> a
> long course which is their business, but you should go to the licensing 
> office
> managed by the government and ask if your drivers license can be 
> transfered to
> a Japanese drivers isence or not. Every prefecture have one such kind of 
> office,
> or if you don't know where it is, then go to the police station and ask 
> it.